Thanks Garbee, I totally agree.
Paul, I've updated the
template<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Template:Articles_needing_examples>for
15 results per query. And I've started a Find
articles that need
examples<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Getting_Started/examples>page,
to which I will link from the Getting Started guide.
+Scott
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me> wrote:
> I am with Scott on leaving difficulty out. It is very subjective based on
> a persons experience and skill level in different areas. The more general
> you try to think of difficulty levels the less helpful it becomes, if it
> were even helpful in the first place. I think if people look at something,
> they can gauge themselves whether they are able to do it. A difficulty
> level wouldn't really aid, just add extra stuff to go through.
>
> -Garbee
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Good questions! IMHO:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Paul Rosenbusch <
>> paul.rosenbusch.wpd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Scott,
>>>
>>> thanks for moving this into a new thread - I still need to get used to
>>> the whole mailing-list thing :)
>>>
>>> As far as I see it, we could use the following properties:
>>>
>>> - Priority: This could be integrated into the current semantic form,
>>> maybe as a numeric value?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, with values:
>> P0 - top priority
>> P1 - must have
>> P2 - nice to have
>> P3 - ha, if you're lucky
>>
>> Let's be sure the priority is on the whole article, not just the example
>> section.
>>
>>
>>
>>> - Difficulty / Skill required: What categories would you propose?
>>> Maybe this could also be added to the semantic form?
>>>
>>
>> This is difficult. One man's knot is another man's bow. I don't think we
>> can reliably predict how difficult it will be to create any particular code
>> sample. We can omit this one.
>>
>>
>>> - Domain expertise: Could we use Topic clusters or Topics for this?
>>>
>>
>> Topics.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Maybe I misunderstood this - is the differentiation only required for
>>> API documentation itself and anyone can do examples, or are some
>>> examples far more challenging?
>>>
>>
>> Well, as I said, I don't think we can know how difficult the task will
>> be, and we probably don't need this level of granularity.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm confident that I can finish the queries until February 23rd, but
>>> the interesting part will be to create input-fields for these
>>> properties and to set the correct values on some
>>> high-priority-articles.
>>>
>>
>> True! We'll have to run through Chris' spreadsheet and set the priority
>> for each article listed. But I would say that can wait until after next
>> weekend's doc sprint.
>>
>> My availability on Monday will be spotty as it is a holiday here. But
>> I'll start working on the Getting Started pages and incorporating your
>> queries. Please continue to work in your User: space, I'll just copy and
>> paste from there.
>>
>> Terrific work, Paul! Thanks again!
>> +Scott
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --Paul R.
>>>
>>> 2013/2/14 Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com>:
>>> > (first raised in
>>> >
>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2013Feb/0088.html
>>> )
>>> >
>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> > From: Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com>
>>> > Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:33 AM
>>> > Subject: Re: Feedback from Berlin doc sprint
>>> > To: Paul Rosenbusch <paul.rosenbusch.wpd@gmail.com>
>>> > Cc: "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Hi Paul!
>>> >
>>> > I hope you're feeling better!
>>> >
>>> > Your excellent work can be used in our Getting Started work flows. One
>>> of
>>> > the ideas that Rodney Rehm had was that we need to set up our Getting
>>> > Started tasks according to domain expertise and skill required. So,
>>> you can
>>> > imagine a page set up for working in the API domain and a section of
>>> tasks
>>> > for developers, one of which would be contributing code examples and -
>>> bing!
>>> > - your list of articles requiring code examples. The developer just
>>> clicks
>>> > on a link to an article, and off they go. Same for the CSS domain.
>>> >
>>> > I'd love to be able to get this together in time for our next doc
>>> sprint -
>>> > February 23rd in San Francisco. Most of it is dependent upon me to
>>> work out
>>> > the Getting Started flow and pages. As I recall you had a few more
>>> things
>>> > you'd like to add to the queries, but as far as I can see, we can use
>>> them
>>> > starting now.
>>> >
>>> > Tell you what though, let's take this discussion into a separate
>>> thread so
>>> > as not to confuse the issue here. This thread was started to talk
>>> about doc
>>> > sprint participant feedback. I'll paste all this in a new thread. Stay
>>> > tuned.
>>> >
>>> > And, thanks again for the terrrific work here!
>>> >
>>> > +Scott
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Paul Rosenbusch
>>> > <paul.rosenbusch.wpd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> The mailing list does not seem to publish my first message, so I'll
>>> >> submit it again just to be sure. I hope nobody gets duplicate mails
>>> >> because of this :)
>>> >>
>>> >> 2013/2/14 Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On 14 Feb 2013, at 14:52, Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com> wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > > n Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Chris Mills wrote:
>>> >> > >> 1. Some people want to just look at site compatibility info, or
>>> code
>>> >> > >> examples. It would be nice to create the site in a way that
>>> people can
>>> >> > >> search to just bring up site compat info or code examples, and
>>> not have to
>>> >> > >> trawl through all the full reference pages.
>>> >> > > Sounds like this is something the test resource center[1] might
>>> >> > > partially be able to address.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Perhaps, yes.
>>> >>
>>> >> During the docsprint I worked on semantic querys that list articles
>>> >> needing examples. Unfortunately I got the flu right after and could
>>> >> not work on it this week.
>>> >>
>>> >> I still need to document the whole thing and maybe optimize the
>>> >> output. Regardless of that, the template is usable at the moment. You
>>> >> can find an example implementation here:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/User:Paul.rosenbusch/Articles_needing_examples
>>> >>
>>> >> Where do you think would be the best place to put these tables?
>>> >>
>>> >> If needed I could also create a custom output format, but currently I
>>> >> have no idea which formatting would work best.
>>> >>
>>> >> --Paul R.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
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